Terry Allen
La Despedida (The Parting)

Artist Terry Allen (American, born 1943)American, born 1943

CultureAmerican

Titles

La Despedida (The Parting)
from Juarez Series

Date1974

MediumWatercolor dyes, oil pastel, color pencil, and graphite on wove paper with assemblage of chromogenic photographs, masking tape, typed letters on paper, cellophane tapes, cut-and-pasted lettering, and transferred letters; acrylic bonnet with painted balsa wood and cardboard letters

Dimensions30 1/4 × 40 1/4 × 1 3/4 in. (76.8 × 102.2 × 4.4 cm)

Credit LineGift of M. Susan Lewis

Object number2015.192

Not on view

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Department

Prints and Drawings

Object Type

COLLAGE & MONTAGE

ProvenanceThe artist, Wichita, Kansas, by 1974; [Betty Moody Gallery, Houston]; Mary Susan Lewis, Austin, by March 2014; given to MFAH, 2014.
Exhibition History"Juarez Series," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Novemeber 7–December 8, 1975.

"Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, September 3–November 21, 1976; National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., May 20–September 11, 1977.

"Under the Big Black Sun: California Art, 1974–1981," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, October 3–February 13, 2012.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

[None]

Recto: Chopmark, below image, bottom left: [illegible]
Verso of frame: label printed, left top edge: SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF ART / REG No. 14.76.16 Lender: Terry Allen,/ Fresno, California / ARTIST ALLEN, TERRY
Verso, on back board: label in printed ink, top left corner: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles / Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981 / Terry Allen / La Despedida, 1974 / Mixed media / 30 x 40 in (76.2 x 101.6 cm) / Collection of Susan Lewis, Newfield, NY / PM380
Verso, on back board: label in printed ink, upper left center: Terry Allen / b. 1943 / 174. LA DESPEDIDA (The Par- / ting) from the Juarez / Section of the Series / 1974 / mixed media on illus- / tration board / Lent by M. Susan Lewis / [crossed out information] / 226 HINES ROAD / NEWFIELD, N.Y. 14897 [inscribed in ink]

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